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Fairy Punch

A historical recipe from What to drink, by Stockbridge, Bertha E. L. (Bertha Edson Lay) (1920).

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A historical recipe

What to drink: The blue book of beverages; recipes and directions for making and serving non-alcoholic drinks for all occasions, by Stockbridge, Bertha E. L. (Bertha Edson Lay) (1920). Project Gutenberg eBook #76921.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 9 ingredients

  1. ½ cupful of lime syrup
  2. ½ cupful of raspberry syrup
  3. ½ cupful of strawberry syrup
  4. ½ cupful of pineapple syrup
  5. ⅓ cupful of sugar
  6. 1 quart of raspberry water ice
  7. 1 pint of ginger ale
  8. 1 pint of water
  9. 1 quart of carbonated water

Method

  1. ½ cupful of lime syrup, ½ cupful of raspberry syrup, ½ cupful of strawberry syrup, ½ cupful of pineapple syrup, 2 oranges, 2 lemons, ⅓ cupful of sugar, 1 quart of raspberry water ice, 1 pint of ginger ale, 1 pint of water, 1 quart of carbonated water, Ice.
  2. Extract the juice from the lemons and the oranges and mix with the sugar;
  3. add the lime, raspberry, strawberry and pineapple syrups, and stir in the water;
  4. pour this mixture over a square of ice in the punch bowl and add the ginger ale and the carbonated water.
  5. Slip the square of raspberry water ice into the center of the bowl and serve at once.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Mixing bowl
  • Wooden spoon
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From What to drink, by Stockbridge, Bertha E. L. (Bertha Edson Lay) (1920). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #76921 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76921). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.